How long is food in your stomach? I was just curious

I'm a Nuclear Medicine technologist and we do a study just to determine that! Typically, 90% of what you eat is gone from the stomach in 2-4%; that's the "normal" range. It is effected by what you eat, how much you eat and if you have fluid at the same time. With RNY bypass, it's typically faster. I haven't done enough studies on "sleeve" patients to give you an average. Hope this helps.

I'm a Nuclear Medicine technologist and we do a study just to determine that! Typically, 90% of what you eat is gone from the stomach in 2-4%; that's the "normal" range. It is effected by what you eat, how much you eat and if you have fluid at the same time. With RNY bypass, it's typically faster. I haven't done enough studies on "sleeve" patients to give you an average. Hope this helps.

2-4% of what? Sorry, I don’t get it.

OOPS! That was 2 -4 HOURS. Sorry!

I have a sleeve, and how it feels to me is the food stays in there until I drink a big cup of beverage, and that "washes" the food out. If I don't drink, then 2-4 hours sounds about right.

If I try to drink before 30-40 minutes after I eat, I immediately get too full. If I wait, there seems to be room to drink.

So, what that seems to tell me is some of the food has already left the sleeve within 30-40 minutes.

In an ideal world we will wait a couple hours before drinking so the food has the best chance of getting digestive juices mixed in it.

For me the longer i wait to drink the fuller ill feel for longer.

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